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The Carlton at the Lake

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Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata

Historical Rating
Grade: D
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The Carlton at the Lake's website

725 West Montrose Avenue,
Chicago IL 60613

74.3% estimated occupancy 1

The Carlton at the Lake is a facility in Chicago, Illinois which has a population of 2,680,484 people. This isn't a very good nursing home with a D overall grade. Sadly, this grade is right in line with the city grade in Chicago. Fortunately, if you aren't impressed with this facility, there are countless other options available in this city. If you aren't deterred by this place's profile, feel free to continue reading to find out about its category scores. We discuss inspections in the next paragraph.

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • No CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • For profit - Limited Liability company
  • Offers Hospice
  • Offers Respite Care
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Personal Care
  • Medication Management
  • Home Making
  • Transportation
  • Medical Transportation
  • Speech Therapy
  • Stroke Recovery
  • Amputee Recovery
  • Dentistry
  • Wound Care
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Cardiac Therapy
  • Podiatry
  • Mental Health
  • Physical Therapy
  • Respiratory Therapy
  • Nutritional Counseling
  • Pharmacy
  • Pain Management
  • Orthopedic Rehabilitation

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Facility Inspections

Grade: B-plus

Although we didn't give this place a good overall score, we did give it a strong grade in the category of inspections, where it received a grade of B+. Our inspection ratings are based on datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important item to look for on these reports. Most importantly, you should avoid nursing homes that have severe deficiencies linked to risks to resident well being. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. A couple minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

Nurse Quality

Grade: C

We also want to point out that this facility received a decent grade in our nursing category. We awarded it a grade of C in the area. Nursing ratings are largely based on the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this facility fared better in some of the quality measures we looked at. It scored well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: D

This facility's second worse score was long-term care, where it earned just a D in that category. This is a relatively poor score. Nursing homes that don't fare well in long-term care typically aren't as well-staffed and are lagging in some of the areas of routine healthcare services we assessed. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to a relatively low 89.671364 percent of its residents, which is several points lower than we expected. Surprisingly, this place was actually decent at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had just 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: F

The last area we rated was short-term care, where this facility received a bottom of the barrel score in this category as well. We gave it a lowly F for this area, which is definitely a major concern. In determining our short-term care scores, we look at the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our goal is to devise a scale for sizing up the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. As you might expect, we discovered that this facility offers significantly less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Finally, we assessed the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. This was not a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 4.2 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, around half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

FDCB-BB+A-AA+Oct 18Dec 23

The Carlton at the Lake Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: D

In The Carlton at the Lake, 11.91% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This is the percent of patients that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage due to staying in one position for an excessive period of time.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: A+

In The Carlton at the Lake, 0% of Patients had Serious Falls

This is the percent of patients who sustained a major fall. Falls resulting in serious injury are considered to be an indicator of nursing care at a nursing home. Falls leading to injury are often the result of lower quality nursing care.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: A-minus

In The Carlton at the Lake, 0.79% of Patients had UTIs

This figure indicates the percent of long-term residents who have sustained UTI's. While more infections could reflect poorly on a facility's nursing care, it can be problematic to compare different facilities due to facilities having differing reporting standards.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: B-minus

In The Carlton at the Lake, 15.35% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents taking antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs serve an important medical purpose, it is important to ensure these medications are being used only where medically required. In some cases, excessive reliance on these medications may indicate a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: A

In The Carlton at the Lake, 8.77% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients that are given antianxiety medication. These drugs are generally prescribed to residents experiencing depression or anxiety.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: F

In The Carlton at the Lake, 90.14% of Patients

This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents showing signs of depression.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: C

In The Carlton at the Lake, 93.31% of Patients

This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term stay residents that were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for nursing home patients, making these vaccines critical to patient health.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: A-plus

In The Carlton at the Lake, 1.98% of Patients

This tells you the percentage of residents who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: F

In The Carlton at the Lake, 2.6% of Residents

This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay residents who were able to retain mobility. Many in the industry argue that mobility is vital to residents' physical and mental well-being.

Hospitalizations

Grade: B

In The Carlton at the Lake, 0.03 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This tells you the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of care. There is generally a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and the overall quality of long-term care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: A-plus

In The Carlton at the Lake, 2.6% of Residents Rehospitalized

This is the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: B-plus

In The Carlton at the Lake, 10.68% of Patients

This indicates the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term care. There is a correlation between having fewer emergency room visits and the overall quality of care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: A

In The Carlton at the Lake, 88.48% of Resident

This tells you the percentage of short-term patients that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.

Scores for Chicago, IL

  • Overall Rating has a grade of D
  • Nurse Rating has a grade of C
  • Long-term Care Rating has a grade of C
  • Short-term Care Rating has a grade of C
  • Inspection Rating has a grade of B-minus

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